2008/10/5 Michael Regen <>
> Hi,
>> Does anyone a little bit more experienced with the Erlang build mechanism
> know how to compile and link Erlang with libcmt instead of msvcrt?
> The default mechanism builds Erlang with the /MD switch which means the C
> standard libraries are accessed as threaded dll MSVCR??.DLL. This also means
> you cannot simply copy Erlang to another computer as long as the correct C
> runtime is not installed there.
>> I am trying to figure out how to statically bind the libcmt library.
> Normally you do this by using the /MT switch.
>
Sorry, but we have no intention of supporting that. The reason is that
Microsoft strongly discourages using the statically linked run-time library
in programs
that loads DLLs. Having a MT-linked emulator will lead to memory leaks.
/Bjorn
--
Björn Gustavsson, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/attachments/20081017/98ad8ea3/attachment.html>